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The Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) published a decision dated 17 July 2024, in which it issued new rules on the monitoring of private and public broadcasters’ compliance with their obligations regarding pluralism of opinion. In its decision, the regulator explained the conditions for the implementation of the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) decision of 13 February 2024 (see IRIS 2024-3:1/12), in which ARCOM was given six months to review the compliance of TV channel CNews at...

In support of its application for the annulment of decision no. 2023-63 of 9 February 2023 in which it was fined by ARCOM (the French audiovisual and digital communications regulator), the C8 company requested that the Conseil constitutionnel (Constitutional Council) be asked to examine the constitutionality of several provisions of the Law of 30 September 1986 on freedom of communication. Under the disputed provisions, ARCOM is authorised to impose penalties without prejudice to any criminal court proceedings brought by the public prosecutor’s office or individuals under ordinary law for...

The so-called ‘zombie drug’ xylazine was the subject of a report broadcast during an episode of “PAF avec Baba” on C8 on 12 September 2023. The programme’s presenter introduced the topic as follows: “Two videos have recently gone viral [...] where several people can be seen in the streets of Rouen, in the middle of France, behaving like zombies. According to the makers of the video, they had consumed xylazine, a drug that makes its users resemble zombies […]”. Images of people allegedly under the influence of the drug were then shown several times....

On 15 May 2024, following a serious breakdown of law and order two days previously (armed confrontations, attacks on and destruction of public buildings, infrastructure and shops, with many human casualties and paralysed public services and transport networks), the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia. The day before, it had been decided that access to the TikTok social network should be blocked in New Caledonia because it was being used to facilitate the violence. On the basis of Article L. 521-2 of the Administrative Justice Code, various...

Law No. 2024-449 of 21 May 2024 aiming “to secure and regulate the digital space” was published in the French Official Gazette after being examined by the Conseil constitutionnel (Constitutional Council). The first section of the law aims to prevent minors accessing pornographic websites. To this end, it gives the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) the task of drawing up minimum technical standards that must be met by age verification systems set up by publishers and online video-sharing...